Three pairs of early career scientists have been named the inaugural Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech. They will work jointly under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance brain technologies.
New and unique, Cornell's Master of Professional Studies in Applied Behavioral Economics and Individual Choices program aims to train the next generation of Brian "Mindless Eating" Wansinks.
The fellowships, for students planning to pursue a teaching career, provide support for six to 12 months of dissertation research in a foreign country. (June 3, 2010)
Assistant professor of art Michael Ashkin has been awarded a 2011 MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He will be in residence at the colony in New Hampshire in June. (May 23, 2011)
Professor emeritus of development sociology Joseph Mayone Stycos, who taught at Cornell for 43 years, died June 24 at Kendal at Ithaca. He founded the International Population Program in 1962 and directed it for 30 years.
Emeritus professor Robert D. Sweet died Jan. 39 at age 98. He was the former chair of the Department of Vegetable Crops, a precursor to the Department of Horticulture, and an expert on weed control.
President Martha E. Pollack congratulated about 300 newly minted Ph.D.s in a speech that challenged them to "be an expert in your own discipline," and to "model the ways in which experts think and draw conclusions in everything you do."
National 4-H Council president and CEO Jennifer Sirangelo was hosted by Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City Jan. 27 in a tour of the Food and Finance High School's Hydroponics, Aquaculture, Aquaponics Learning Labs.
Events on campus in July include aboriginal art at the Johnson Museum, Karl Pillemer relating lessons on love from elders, Plantations botanical garden tours and School of Criticism and Theory public lectures.
Cornell’s shared governance groups are considering resolutions related to the divestment of fossil fuel-related holdings from the university’s endowment.